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Emily Nussbaum on the Beginnings of Reality TV

2024/6/25
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Emily Nussbaum: 本书探讨了现实电视的起源和发展，并非始于《幸存者》或《真实世界》，而是有着更悠久更复杂的历史。从早期的广播节目《Candid Microphone》到后来的《Candid Camera》，再到具有里程碑意义的《An American Family》和长寿节目《Cops》，这些节目都对现实电视的形成和演变产生了深远的影响。节目中存在着对参与者的道德考量，以及权力失衡等问题，也反映了现实电视节目制作中经济因素的影响。 David Remnick: 访谈围绕着三个关键的现实电视节目展开，探讨了它们对后世的影响以及现实电视的本质。 David Remnick: 访谈中穿插了对节目制作人和参与者的采访，展现了现实电视节目制作中人与人之间复杂的关系，以及节目对参与者生活的影响。

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Reality television has generally got a bad rap, but Emily Nussbaum)—who received a Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for her work as The New Yorker’s TV critic—sees that the genre has its own history and craft. Nussbaum’s new book “Cue the Sun!” is a history of reality TV), and roughly half the book covers the era before “Survivor,” which is often considered the starting point of the genre. She picks three formative examples from the Before Time to discuss with David Remnick: “Candid Camera,” “An American Family,” and “Cops.” She’s not trying to get you to like reality TV, but rather, she says, “I'm trying to get you to understand it.”